Tether's $1.4B Bet on Robot Economy Sees Machines Get Their Own Bank Accounts

Tether has led a landmark Series C funding round of up to $1.4 billion for NEURA Robotics, a German cognitive humanoid robotics company.

The funding is one of the largest private investment rounds in humanoid robotics history, and it represents Tether's attempt to become the financial infrastructure layer for the physical world.

Tether's Wallet Development Kit (WDK) will be integrated into NEURA's robots, allowing them to have self-custodial crypto wallets that enable machine-to-machine payments without human intervention.

The integration of WDK and QVAC, an edge AI runtime, aims to enhance operational efficiency for autonomous machines even with degraded connectivity.